Heating-stove.



No. 743,223. PATENTED NOV. 3, 1903.

" J.L.F.BAUER,Jm

HEATING STOVE.

APPLICATION FILED FEBJA, 1903.

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PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN L. F. BAUER, JR, OF STRASBURG, ILLINOIS.

H EATING-STOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 743,223, dated November 3, 1903. Application filed February 14, 1908. Serial No. 143,410. (No model.)

130 all whom LT may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN L. F. BAUER, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at Strasburg, in the county of Shelby and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Heating'Stovespf which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to stoves of the type designed most especially for burning wood, bagasse, refuse, and light fuel, the fire being built upon the bottom. As frequently happens in this class of heaters, the lining, which is usually of sheet metal, becomes warped and burned and needs to be repaired.

This invention aims to facilitate the removal of the lining, so thatthe necessary repairs may be made by the average workman.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means for effecting the result reference is to be had to the following description and drawings hereto attached.

While the essential and characteristic features of the invention are susceptible of modification, still the preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical central section of a heating-stove embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a detail section of the joint formed between the shell, lining, and bottom on a larger scale. Fig. 3 is aview similarto Fig. 2, showing the parts separated.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The shell or body of the stove or heater is indicated by the numeral 1 and may be of any design or pattern and is provided with feet 2 for supporting the bottom a proper distance from the floor or other surface upon which the heater may be placed. The bottom 3 may be cast or of wrought metal and is provided at its outer edge with a hollow or approximately U-shape flange 4. Therims 5 and 6 comprising the vertical members of the flange are spaced apart any determinate distance and are of unequal height, the outer rim 5 projecting a distance below the inner rim 6. The rims 5 and 6 are apertured to receive the by the bolts or fastenings 7.

bolts or fastenings by means of which the parts are connected to admit of their ready separation. The shell or casing 1 encircles the rim 5 and is detachably connected thereto The feet 2 are likewise attached to the rim 5 by the same fastenings 7 connecting the shell or casing 1 thereto. The lining 8 is supported upon the bottom 3, and its lower portion bears against the rim 6 and is detachably connected thereto by the bolts or fastenings 9.

From the foregoing it will be readily understood that the bottom of the heater or stove may be readily removed by taking out the bolts or fastenings '7, thereby exposing the lining and enabling ready access being had thereto. The lining can be easily detached from the rim 6 and substituted by a new one. After replacement of the wornout lining the bottom is inserted into the shell or casingl and made fast by replacing the fastenings '7. It will thus be observed that the construction is such as to admit of repairs being cheaply and quickly made, the

bottom being quickly detachable and carrying with it the lining, which is exposed and in position to be detached from the bottom with the greatest facility.

While it is contemplated to employ a bottom 3 of any construction, it is preferred to cast the same.

Having thus described the invention, what substantially as set forth.

2. In a heating-stove of the type for burning light fuel, the combination of the stovebody, lining and bottom, the latter having a hollow flange at its outer edge to come between the lining and stove-body, the rims of the flange being of unequal height and provided at intervals in their length with openings and fastenings detachably connecting the lining and stove-body with corresponding rims of the said flange, substantially as the flange, and feet secured to one of the specified. said rims by the same fastenings connecting 3. In a heating-stove of the character dethe stove member thereto, substantially as scribed, the combination of the stove-body, set forth.

5 lining, bottom having an integral flange at In testimony whereof I have affixed my sig I 5 its outer edge comprising spaced rims of unnature in presence of two Witnesses. equal height adapted to come between the JOHN L. F. BAUER, J R. [L. s] lower edges of the lining and stove-body, Witnesses: fastenings detaehably connecting the lining J. I. BLYTHE,

i0 and stove-body With corresponding rims of CHRIS KIRCHER. 

